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Comprehensive Plan Update
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Summary and Background Information:
To ensure the City’s Comprehensive Plan continues to be a useful policy document that represents the vision and collective desires of the community, the city is pursuing a comprehensive update to the plan to respond to changing conditions and community values.
As a part of the update process, staff will be providing updates to City Council, alternating in-person and written correspondence.
For Step 1: Project Initiation, staff conducted the following outreach initiatives:
• Staff Working Group Meeting
• Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting
• Elected and Appointed Officials Roundtable
For Step 2: Community Engagement, staff conducted the following outreach initiatives:
• Community Engagement Workshop (4)
• Pop-Up Engagement (2)
• Key Person Interviews (11)
For the month of May:
• Staff and the hired consultant for the Comprehensive Plan update, Houseal Lavigne are wrapping up Step 4: Existing Conditions Analysis. An Issues & Opportunities Report (IOR) has been provided and is being reviewed by the Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), in addition to staff.
• Business Workshops have been conducted, 1 in Spanish, 1 in English in order to receive feedback on the Comprehensive Plan from the business community. Feedback from the business community will be used in the plan update.
• The Community survey and mapping tool is still available for an easy way to give input to the Comprehensive Plan.
• DIY Workshop Kits are now available for anyone to plan a workshop with other passionate citizens, friends, colleagues, or family to receive feedback on the future development of the City. Anyone interested in a kit can contact City Planner, Jamie Rice at jrice@c3gov.com or 303.227.8782. Participants will be entered to win raffles (i.e. gift cards and recreation facility passes). DIY Kits will be available until late summer/early fall.
For the month of June:
• The Comp Plan Update process is currently at Step 5: Community Vision, Goals, and Objectives.
• Visioning Workshops have been scheduled. A community-wide Visioning Workshop is scheduled for June 10, 2021 at 6:00PM. The workshop will be held virtually, a zoom link to register has been posted to the project website and event postings on the City’s social media platforms.
• A joint City Council/ Planning Commission Visioning Workshop is scheduled for June 14, 2021 at the regular scheduled 6:00PM City Council Hearing.
• Visioning Display Boards have been placed in the following locations and will remain until the Visioning Workshops.
o Civic Center
o Bison Ridge Recreation Center
o Eagle Pointe Recreation Center
o Paradise Island Pool
o Fronterra Community Park
o Veteran’s Memorial Park
o Buffalo Run Clubhouse
• Citizens Advisory Committee and Technical Advisory Committees will meet in June to review the Issues and Opportunities Report.
• Staff will begin Step 6: Subarea Plans and a Subarea Visioning Charrette. Up to three (3) subareas will be identified for the development of more detailed Subarea Plans. A subarea visioning charrette, which will also feature a Spanish- speaking interpreter, will focus outreach as a basis for community discussion.
Staff Responsible (Department Head): Jason Rogers, Deputy City Manager of External Services
Staff Member Presenting: Jamie Rice, Planner III
Financial Impact: N/A
Funding Source: N/A
Staff Recommendation: N/A
Suggested Motion: N/A